Start of Ingolstadt Campaign

1813 Campaign Phases 

This 1813 campaign started in April 2009 and since then there have been 93 campaign phases and 505 battles fought as wargames.    A campaign phase is a mini campaign, and usually lasts 6 campaign days, with a battle being fought on each day.   This map shows the location and winner of each of those campaign phases.  The map used is the latest version, not the original map used in 2009.

1813 Sixth Campaign

During that period there have been six major changes to the campaign.

April 2009               first campaign was solo campaign with paper maps

October 2009          second campaign was computerised and first attempt at PBEM

June 2013               third campaign reached 1814 set in France

February 2015        fourth campaign restarted 1 January 1813

February 2016        fifth campaign reverted to solo campaign

June 2020               sixth campaign created new maps with military regions 

This map shows the 19 phases of the sixth campaign, which has produced 132 battles to wargame.   

Ingolstadt Campaign Phase

This is the campaign map, which is used for daily movement.   It shows the location of the nine Austrian and nine Bavarian and Baden corps on the first day.   It also shows the infantry brigades detached as garrisons to secure the rear area of both armies.  The white star indicates the location of the first battle, which is at Weichering.

This is the second time I have used the larger map showing 15, rather than 12 towns.   This allows for the losing side to launch a counter attack after the campaign objective, which is Ingolstadt, has been taken by the French.   This will allow for a maximum of 9 battles, rather than 6 battles.

Southern Germany is my favourite of the three campaign areas in Germany.   This is because of the colourful uniforms of the Austrian, Bavarian and Baden armies.   At some time in the future I would like to introduce the Tyrol, with the Bavarian “guerrillas” of Andreas Hofer.   But it was a very limited campaign and did not really affect the larger Danube campaign.   However ever since I visited Innsbruck back in the early 1970s I have always wanted to do it!